Harvard / Yale

Around Campus

100

Both Harvard and Yale have a building called The "____" Museum. At Harvard, it is the Museum of Ethnology and Archeology, located on Divinity Street. At Yale, it is the Museum of Natural History (and has a tapeworm exhibit).

Peabody

200

This is the name of the oldest collegiate newspaper in US history (still in print)

Yale Daily News

300

There is a tree stump that has been made into Winnie the Pooh's house outside of this Harvard building

Science Center

400

This shop in Harvard Square has old Harvard Yale "Game" footballs lining its walls

Leavitt & Peirce

500

This café, in the building by the same name that hosts the Hist & Lit, Folk & Myth, and English departments, was once coined on Twitter as the place where "humanities students don't even do work, they just go to flirt with each other."

Barker Café 

People

100

This current Harvard Divinity School philosophy professor published the books Race Matters and Democracy Matters, made a film debut in The Matrix, and has three spoken-word albums which feature Prince and Andre 3000.

Cornel West

200

This Golden Globe-winning actress graduated from Yale in 1980 and has starred in Malcolm X (1992), What's Love Got to Do with It (1993), Akeelah and the Bee (2006) and many seasons of American Horror Story.

Angela Bassett

300

Mark Zuckerberg invented Facebook in this upperclassmen house

Kirkland

400

Canaday C Proctor Bryan Panzano graduated from Harvard College with a concentration in this field

Romance Languages and Literatures

500

This number of current Democratic presidential candidates hold a degree from Yale law school

Two

Ivy League Athletic Conference

100

U.S. News ranks this Ivy League school the #1 college/university in the nation this year (2019).

Princeton

200

This Ivy League school was the only to be established after the Declaration of Independence

Cornell

300

In 1881, both Yale and this school wanted to preserve their undefeated records in football, so they refused to do anything all game and ended in a 0-0 tie.

Princeton

400

This school hosts a collection of letters from Christopher Columbus proclaiming his "discovery" of the New World.

Brown

500

This UPenn graduate wrote a poem about stealing plums from the icebox, called "This is Just to Say." It was my least favorite poem I have ever had to read for school.

William Carlos Williams

HY-five

100

Yale's most popularly enrolled class ever focuses on this theme.

Happiness

200

The color of a banana

Yellow

300

This weird thing humans do for no reason is scientifically known as a synchronous diaphragmatic flutter (SDF). BOO!

hiccup

400

This 2017 single by Khalid went platinum 

Young Dumb and Broke

500

In 2018, this slang word was added to the Dictionary as "an exclamation of excitement, approval, surprise, or all-around energy, often as issued when doing a dance move or throwing something."

YEET

What the Hale?

100

The Yale New Haven Hospital once had an 8-way swap of this human organ between a man, a woman, and three couples.

Kidney

200

In the 1940s, both Harvard and Yale required first-years to have their pictures taken by faculty upon arrival to campus...and this is the reason these pictures were very very weird.

The students were completely naked

300

Harvard has tried to ban this sport twice

Football

400

At the 2004 "Game" between Harvard and Yale, Yale tricked Harvard students into holding up placards in their section of the stadium, and it spelled out ___ ____.

WE SUCK

500

This is Yale University's original name

The Collegiate School